Prof. Lisa Beth Hightow-Weidman is an Associate Dean for Research, Distinguished and Endowed McKenzie Professor, and Director at the Institute on Digital Health and Innovation. As the founding Director of the Institute on Digital Health and Innovation, she has over 20 years of experience providing patients with HIV prevention and care services as an infectious disease physician. She is the creator of a digital health platform that has been used in numerous health promotion intervention trials across the US and in eight countries globally, and is widely recognized as a leading expert globally in adolescent HIV prevention and care research. She obtained her B.A. in English from the University of California, Los Angeles, and her M.D. from the University of Virginia School of Medicine in Charlottesville. Then, she completed a Residency in internal medicine at Stanford University, Palo Alto, California. Subsequently, she got a master's in Public Health in Epidemiology from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, NC. Her research areas include stigma reduction, HIV prevention and care continuum, adolescent health, mHealth and Digital Health, and sexual and gender minority populations.